Best PC brands overall

[BrunchToaster]

What are the Top 3 brands for Laptops?

What are the Top 3 brands for Desktop PCs?

 

[middlemarkal]

in what categoty ?
toughness LENOVO laptop
gaming MSI LAPTOP, ASUS ROG,
power laptop, workstation DELL 4800 or Lenovo W540

desktop pc , build yourself

 

[KoopaCreeper]

Self built. I would never purchase a pre-made desktop PC.
Generally laptops by Lenovo, and ASUS are very good too, with the occasional HP or Dell.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

For desktop,s, only answer I can give is the one you build yaself.

As for laptops, brand names are pretty much useless as most pf the brands you'd recognize don't actually make a laptop and most of the ones who compete with one another are likely made in the same factories.

The vast majority of laptops on the market (94% in 2011) are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based Original Design Manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China.

Major relationships include:

Quanta sells to (among others) HP, Lenovo, Apple, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu and NEC
Compal sells to (among others) Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and HP/Compaq
Wistron (former manufacturing & design division of Acer) sells to Dell, Acer, Lenovo and HP
Inventec sells to Toshiba, HP and Lenovo
Pegatron sells to Asus, Toshiba, Apple, Dell and Acer
Foxconn sells to Asus, Dell, HP and Apple
Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP

That said, we use exclusively Clevo laptops ...,. Clevo is an ODM who sells under the Sager branding and is also the source of the laptops sold by all the boutique laptop vendors like Flacon Northewest, WidowPC, and "back in the day" Alienware before dell bought them).

So, the 2nd best thing to building it yourself is having someone else build it for you to your specific component specifications. Most vendors try to hit lower price points by heavily advertising some key components and then stuffing in low speed RAM or slow rpm HDs to bring the price down . By naming each end every component that goes in to the base chassis, you get exactly what you need.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/clevo-guide-v2-0-faq-and-reseller-info.91510/

CLEVO is a large Taiwanese computer company specializing in laptops. While the Clevo brand name is perhaps not widely known, their products are re-branded and sold by known boutique brand OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers)… notably Sager, VoodooPC, Falcon Northwest, Eurocom, etc. They are also considered (by whoever knows about notebooks) to design and manufacturer the best of the best notebooks in terms of superior build quality and innovative designs. Established in 1983, as an ODM (Original Design Manufacturer), they sell barebones ranging from laptop to portable computing solutions for both AMD and Intel processors. Clevo is one of the world's most preferred ODM partners and markets their products in more than 50 countries, and have established service centers in the USA, Germany, Britain, China, and Taiwan.

I get mine here:

http://www.lpc-digital.com/

 

[orlbuckeye]

Well some OEM to design their laptops and the ODM build them. Clevo design and builds and sells their as barebones and to companies that and some components and put their brand on the case. Sager uses Clevo in the USA and Clevo designs and manufactures for Sager. Compal and Quanta are the 2 biggest ODM's. ASUS and MSI used to be ODM only but back in the pricing battles they desiged to sell their own branded PC's. They were similar to Sager in distribution of their laptops. At one time Samsung and Dell and a non-competitive agreement is the USA. I believe it was LG and IBM also had a non competitive agreement then Lenovo bought IBM PC business.

One thing about Sager when you had the computer with warranty work done they ask you to remove the hard drive. The other name brands don't want the HD removed.